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...Spencer Lee-Lenfield Abstract Reexamining Flaubert's use of simile in Madame Bovary yields fresh insights into old, deep questions in the study of realism: depiction of thought, free indirect speech, the relationship between representation and reality. Barthes thought the content of a simile...

... like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reader becomes identified with some aspect of the world of the text, usually the narrator or a character (A is B...

... or conversational speech change shape in the context of testimony? What happens when Charlotte Delbo uses metaphor, simile, or personification to convey her experiences in Auschwitz? What happens to oral testimony when Holocaust survivors bear witness while the camera records parasemantic body language that swerves...

... of Similarity in Similes and Metaphors ,” in Metaphor and Thought , edited by Ortony Andrew , 186 – 201 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Peterfreund Stuart 2002 Shelley among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University...

... Allusion Poetics and Theory of Literature  ‘‘Method in Mad- ness: Notes on the Structure of Parody, Based on Mad’s T.V. Satires Poetics Today  ‘‘Represented Reality and Literary Models: European Autumn on Israeli Soil Poetics Today and, ‘‘Poetics of the Homeric Simile and Theory of [Poetic...

... Basis of Language Processing: From Structure to Function,” Physiological Reviews 91 , no. 4 : 1357 – 92 . Glucksberg Sam Haught Catrinel 2006 “On the Relation between Metaphor and Simile: When Comparison Fails,” Mind and Language 21 , no. 3 : 360 – 78...

... for Metaphors and Similes,” Poetics 31 , no. 1 : 51 – 68 . Chiappe Dan Kennedy John M. Smykowski Tim 2003 “Reversibility, Aptness, and the Conventionality of Metaphors and Similes,” Metaphor and Symbol 18 , no. 2 : 85 – 105 . Danesi Marcel 2016...

... imagination of deep time, the reader's imagination is aided by another trace—a stylistic rather than physical one. It is the simile: “Time closed up like a fan before him.” The image of the folding fan is deployed to express the sudden closing, in Knight's mind, of the temporal gulf that separates him from...

... Kuiken 1994 “Beyond Text Theory: Understanding Literary Response,” Discourse Processes 17 : 337 -52. 2002 “A Feeling for Fiction: Becoming What We Behold,” Poetics 30 : 221 -41. Miller, George A. 1979 “Images and Models,Similes and Metaphors,” in Metaphor and Thought ,edited by Andrew...

...., the depiction of plot paths that might have been taken but were not): it highlights the choices made by the poet on the “paradigmatic” axis while suspending the temporal progress of the actual plot along the “syntagmatic” axis. A parallel on a smaller scale is the constant use of “proliferating similes...

...., the depiction of plot paths that might have been taken but were not): it highlights the choices made by the poet on the “paradigmatic” axis while suspending the temporal progress of the actual plot along the “syntagmatic” axis. A parallel on a smaller scale is the constant use of “proliferating similes...

...., the depiction of plot paths that might have been taken but were not): it highlights the choices made by the poet on the “paradigmatic” axis while suspending the temporal progress of the actual plot along the “syntagmatic” axis. A parallel on a smaller scale is the constant use of “proliferating similes...

.... Confronted by such obscurities, students who are harangued aboutmetaphors and similes will not make much headway in a poem when they cannot make out who is speaking or why. Bialostosky is especially good at explaining the difficulty and impor- tance of reanimating tone from the printed page. Even...

....  Another scholar who examines figurative language more broadly (metaphors, similes, analogies) in Imagism is Craig Hamilton (2004). Though Hamilton’s “cognitive rhetoric of Imagism” does not mention image metaphors by name, it addresses a few image metaphors through cognitive concepts, such as Lakoff...

... on my own circumstances” (1998: 182). But sometimes he did so by means of similes or metaphors. Shortly after he had fled to Ibiza, he described the difficulty of finding accommodation in a letter to Gretel Karplus from April 14, 1933; then he continues: “This, however, reflects only on a small...

... to interpret their own metaphors and similes: “It were a shameful thing if one should rhyme under the semblance of metaphor or rhetorical similitude, and afterwards, being questioned thereof, should be unable to rid his words of such sem- blance, unto their right understanding. Of whom (to wit...

.... The similarity in the rhetoric is striking, from the sentence construction to the choice of similes and meta- phors. Figures of speech serve as a kind of ‘‘common denominator’’ capable of elucidating not only the metalanguage of French aesthetic thought of the second half of the eighteenth century...

... de Man. In the introduction to the book, Tambling associates allegory with vari- ous phenomena that “say one thing and mean another,” such as similes and metaphors (one well-­known view of allegory is as an extended metaphor), visual images that carry a strong symbolic resonance...

...,” such as similes and metaphors (one well-­known view of allegory is as an extended metaphor), visual images that carry a strong symbolic resonance, irony, polysemy, wordplay and punning, and deception. Tambling also describes making abstract ideas appear “real” (12) as one of the most important...

... thing and mean another,” such as similes and metaphors (one well-­known view of allegory is as an extended metaphor), visual images that carry a strong symbolic resonance, irony, polysemy, wordplay and punning, and deception. Tambling also describes making abstract ideas appear “real...